Mercure de France, n°295 à n°296, tome LXXXI, année 1909

First edition.
Gray mouse soft cardboard binding, original wrappers preserved, contemporary binding.
Contributions by H. Schoen "Les Nouvelles universités commerciales en Allemagne", A. Rouveyre "J.-H. Fabre", L. Séché "Sainte-Beuve mondain, d'après la correspondance inédite de Madame d'Arbouville", A. Spire, R. Martineau "Balzac et l'affaire Clément de Ris", C. Merki "La Tour du diable", R. de Gourmont, P. Quillard "Stuart Merrill", G.-C. Cros, F. Nietzsche "Pour l'interprétation de Zarathoustra, L. Pergaud "La Tragique aventure de Goupil", Rachilde, A. Fontainas, C. Clarisse "La Volupté dans l'oeuvre de Charles Guérin".
Handsome interior condition.
The 'Mercure de France' was originally a French periodical, founded in the 17th century under the name 'Mercure Galant', which would evolve to become, in the 20th century, a publishing house.
Under the influence of Rémy de Gourmont and Alfred Jarry, a literary review took up the name 'Mercure de France' in 1890 and offered symbolist texts, notably by Jean Moréas, Ernest Raynaud, Jules Renard, Louis Dumur. Gradually gaining recognition, this review would publish both the greatest Parnassians (Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Verlaine, Mallarmé, Heredia, etc.) and see the emergence of Jarry's Pataphysics.
The publishing house was born in its wake. It notably published the first works of Gide and Claudel, of Colette, of Apollinaire, of Georges Duhamel?